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TIL: Pythagoras hated beans and forbid his followers to even touch them, Da Vinci and Norbert Weiner were vegetarian, Charles Darwin ate the exotic animals he studied such as tortoises and armadillos, and Aristophanes attributed Athens' intellect to a low calorie diet.

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